Has anyone tried the Just Dance games on Switch? My kids LOVE dancing along with them on YouTube, and I was thinking about getting it for Switch.

Seemed odd to dance with the controllers in-hand, and I was just wondering how well that actually worked.

we started playing just dance 2019. its very similar to the previous editions, at least for the game play itself.
the dancing is fun, its fairly easy to follow along, and pretty forgiving when you hork it up.
if you need to get your workout, this is a good one, do 4 or 6 in a row, and its sweating time, at least for an middle aged out of shape office worker like me.

One the downside, wading through the menus is becoming a pain for me, its not that easy to jump in and play like they used to be. And , the base game (just dance 2019) comes with limited number of songs. you want the whole batch, have to pony up $25 a year.

I do like that the lyrics are included on the screen. and that one of the dancers is a fat gingerbread man.

its a good family game, jump in and have a dance party for a few minutes, but any longer than 2 or 3 songs, and its a workout.

So there will be a deal on Friday where you get $35 credit to the Estore with a console purchase. I have been watching for deals for a little while. Picked up Mario Odyssey, Diablo 3 (never played it and wanted good coop), Street Fighter Anniversary, and Overcooked 2. Will be getting Pokemon for the daughter, Mario Kart, and Zelda. Any other must have / super duper recommendations?

I'd love to get this for my kids, but we don't do online games. Wish it had a local multiplayer option.

If it makes a difference, there's no chat functionality...at least that I've seen. She literally just drops into a game, runs around shooting people, then leaves.

There's really no interaction with other people, outside of shooting them with paint.

Yeah, if you're picturing Xbox, Playstation, or PC online gaming, you should at least take a peek at how Nintendo handles it. They're protective of kids safety and privacy to the point of being somewhat annoying to deal with.

Last night, Nintendo dropped an awful lot of things to get excited about if you're a Switch owner. Alongside a Zelda remake, a new game from the makers of Bayonetta, and Super Mario Maker 2, it resurrected Tetris (bigger than Mario, right?) for 2019. The company (and the Tetris experts at Arika) have made it battle royale-style.

In Tetris 99 you compete against 98 other people with time to kill, trading lines with each other as the crowd is whittled down to 50, then 10, then an eventual winner.
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This is done through a secondary layer of controls, beside your block shifting buttons. With the left stick, you can shift your attacks to specific -- but anonymous -- Tetris players. More usefully (and less chaotically), there are four shortcuts through accessed through the Switch's right stick. These drive your attacks towards either people attacking you, people close to KO (cheap!) or simply random players. You can also hit 'badges' which represent high-level players with KO badges — if you feel like playing aggressively.

I gave Tetris 99 a try last night, it was pretty fun. I couldn't figure out at all what was going on in terms of attacking/defending, so I just played like regular Tetris lol. I think I came in around 20th place both times so not too bad for a first try. Note it does require you sign up for that NIntendo online service.

I was also going to pick up Battle Chasers based on the comments above, but then it turned out I already had it!!! It seems like a really fun game, I'm not sure why I never got very far in it. If anyone has any thoughts on it I'd be curious. The artwork is fantastic but the load times are definitely sucky though.

I was also going to pick up Battle Chasers based on the comments above, but then it turned out I already had it!!! It seems like a really fun game, I'm not sure why I never got very far in it. If anyone has any thoughts on it I'd be curious. The artwork is fantastic but the load times are definitely sucky though.

The difficulty finally did me in, but I really enjoyed the 10'ish hours I played before hitting that wall.

So I noticed yesterday that Amazon had the new Starfox...er...Starlink game on sale for $25 (from $75) with same day delivery, so I gave it a shot. It's a surprisingly fun space shooter/base builder/exploration game that I'm having a blast with so far. It's basically a mashup of Starfox and No Man's Sky, and even allows me to play through the campaign as Fox. I came in expecting very little, but it's far more fun than I expected it to be.

There's one big caveat though. This is Ubi's attempt to get into the "toys as games" space (i.e. Skylanders, etc.). The implementation of the physical toys is actually pretty cool, as you physically snap weapons, wings, ships, and pilots in and out of a physical controller mount and it is reflected in the game. However, you end up paying a TON more for the physical toys as compared to the digital version. That set I bought which was typically $75, for example, only gives you one ship, two pilots, and two weapons. Any additional ships or weapons must either be purchased as they physical toys, or as DLC.

For comparison, the digital version of the game ($60) give you 6 ships, 7 pilots, and 15 or so weapons. You don't get the physical toys, but I quit using mine after about 10 minutes because just doing everything via the in-game menus was far easier than physically snapping parts onto a model. I'll actually probably spend $60 to pick up the rest of the DLC gear, and just chalk the extra $25 up to having a cool model of the Arwing that will sit on my desk.

tl:dr version. Starlink is a really fun space shooter/exploration game, but stick with the digital version. The toys are wildly overpriced, and you likely won't end up using them much.

If there are a bunch of attackers targeting me, I'll fire back since it seems to amplify by hitting them all. Otherwise I tend to focus on KOs since that makes my endgame garbage-dumping more powerful.

I've played Skyrim now on three platforms (PC, PS4, and Switch) and oddly, the only one that I've ever stuck with past the "mid game" (such as it is in Skyrim) is the Switch version. Part of it is the portability factor (playing it on long flights and in hotels is fantastic), but for some reason, the Switch version just feels "right" for me. On PC, I always spent more time futzing around with mods than I did playing the game, and I don't worry about that with the vanilla Switch version.

I rolled up a second toon over this last long travel stretch, and have been having an absolute blast simply roaming around the countryside, exploring, and generally just playing the game in a very casual way. I tried doing this on both PC and PS4 and ended up bored, but it just seems to "click" better on Switch. It's likely because there isn't anything else screaming for my attention right now, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it on this platform.